Well, it’s over. This is Country California’s final post.
The decision to end now isn’t for a lack of passion for the music. I love music no less today than I did when I started this site seven-and-a-half years ago. I even love it in some of the new, different ways you come to love a thing you engage with day after day.
Nor is this ending born of pessimism regarding the current direction of country. With early signs of a turning tide at radio and a whole slew of recent case studies in … [Read more...]

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I probably thought I was God's gift to country music for a second; then I realized that country music didn't want to be saved, and I didn't really want to save it. ●
--- Steve Earle.
I thought it would be a great duet for us. Looking back years later, she hasn't called me to say, ‘Hey, I wanna pay you back for putting me on your first album and letting all these people hear my voice.’ She hasn't reciprocated. I'm just old-fashioned. I … [Read more...]

Nominees for the 2016 Ameripolitan Music Awards include site favorites like Brennen Leigh, Kelsey Waldon, Cale Tyson, and Whitey Morgan. Full list here.
Sites like TMZ and Gawker are picking up on the Aldean blackface story. Aldean's preferred means of damage control seems to be seething silence.
Farce the Music got a real (fake) exclusive: The track listing for Jason Aldean’s next album, including longtime fan favorites “Unaccidentally Racist” and “Some of My Best Friends.”
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It’s official: Chris Stapleton’s Traveller shot to the top of the all-genre Billboard 200 chart after the CMA Awards (with 177,000 equivalent album units) and might stay there for another week, with current projections suggesting he could move about 100,000 more units in the next reporting period. Traveller had only sold 96,000 copies total as of last Tuesday.
Farce the Music compiled a special edition of TwitterFAILs made up entirely of people not knowing who Chris Stapleton is.
Discovered … [Read more...]

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We had to dance to take the focus off how bad the music was. That’s where I learned a little bit of the [butt] shaking. ●
--- Luke Bryan on the band he played with in college.
There are people out there who can write but can hardly sing. But her voice is beautiful. Her phrasing's gorgeous. She's such a great performer and a great actress. She's a real triple threat. There are not many of those out there, really, where each thing is … [Read more...]